Toy



C. HUGHES v TOY Filed Nov. 21. 1938 I NVENTOR PEG. 5

Y E N R O T T A Patented Nov. 26, 1940 UNITED STATES TOY Charles Hughes, Milwaukee, Wis., assignor to Milwaukee Saddlery Company, Milwaukee, Wis., a corporation of Wisconsin Application November 21, 1938, Serial No. 241,505

6 Claims.

The invention relates to toys.

The general object of the invention is to pro vide a device which may be used either as a jump rope or as a loop-forming lariat.

The invention further consists in the several features hereinafter set forth and more particularly defined by claims at the conclusion hereof.

In the drawing:

Fig. l is a perspective view of the device show- 10 ing it in use as a loop-forming lariat;

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the device showing it used as a jump rope;

Fig. 3 is a detailed side elevation view of a part of the device;

15 Fig. 4 is a detailed sectional view taken on the line 44 of Fig. 3;

Fig. 5 is a detailed sectional view taken on the line 5-5 of Fig. 3;

Fig. 6 is a plane view of a modified form of handle showing it clamped to the rope.

Referring to the drawing, the numeral 6 designates a rope of any suitable length and diameter and made of any suitable flexible fiber or material.

Each end of the rope 6 has a swivel connection with a handle structure, said end having a hollow metal ball-shaped tip 1 secured thereto which seats on a metal washer or tubular rivet 8 mounted in the lower end of the handle member 9 formed by a strip of material, preferably leather, bent to form a loop with its ends l0 clamped together by said washer 8.

A flexible member ll of leather or other suitable material is of generally disc shape and provided with spaced slots 12 in which the sides of the loop are slidably mounted. The members I I when moved along the handle to the inner end thereof abuts against the metal tip' 1 and guards the user from any contact with said hard tip when the device is used as a jump rope, as shownin Fig. 2.

When using the device as a loop-forming lariat, one of the ends of the rope is passed through the looped handle of the other, and then the member II on the handle through which the rope has been passed is slid forwardly along the sides of the handle so as to bring said member ll into abutting or clamping engagement with 50 the rope as shown in Fig. 1 and more in detail in Fig. 3, and when so arranged, the operator by grasping the other handle member and turning and swinging the suspended end of the rope causes the loop to open up and float, as it were, 55 at the end of the rope where it may be moved up or down or from side to side by the operator.

, Instead of using a single strip for the handle it may be formed of separate strips, one of their ends being united together by the washer or tubular rivet 8 and the other of their ends being 6 secured together by the rivet l3.

From the foregoing it will be noted that the member H serves as a guard when the device is used as a jump rope and as a clamp when the device is used as a loop-forming lariat.

It is to be noted that the swivelled connections between the ends of the rope and the handle improve its use as a jump rope and also make it easier to manipulate the loop from one end of the rope. 15

I desire it to be understood that this invention is not to be limited to any particular form or arrangement of parts except in so far as such limitations are included in the claims.

What I claim as my invention is:

1. In a device of the character described, the combination of a rope, handles having swivelled connection with the ends of the rope, and means on one of said handles to clamp the end of this handle to an intermediate part of said rope to form a relatively fixed loop connection therewith.

2. In a device of the character described, the combination of a rope, looped handles having swivelled connection with the ends of the rope, and a member slidable on one of said handles to clamp a portion of the rope between it and said handle to form a relatively fixed loop in the rope. I

3. In a device of the character described, the combination of a rope, looped flexible handles having swivelled connection with the ends of the rope, and a flexible disc member slidable on one ofsaid handles to clamp a portion of the rope between it and said handle to form a relatively fixed loop in the rope.

4. In a device of the character described, the combination of a rope, handles for the ends of the rope, each handle comprising a metal washer,

a looped strip of flexible material clamped together by said washer, and a metal swivel member secured to the end of the rope and engaging said washer, and a flexible disc slidably mounted on said handle to form a guard when the device is used as a jump rope and a clamp when the device is used as a loop-forming lariat.

5. In a device of the character described, the combination of a rope, handles, each comprisin a pair of flexible strips joined together to form a loop, each loop having a swivelled connection 5 combination of a rope, handles for the ends of the rope having swivelled connection therewith, one of said handles comprising a flexible loop having a swivel ring at one end, and a disc member mounted on said loop for movement to said swivelled end to form a guard and for movement toward the opposite end to clamp said rope between it and this end of the handle.

CHARLES HUGHES. 

